These two works are both poems, the first (Poem A) having a regular rhyming pattern and the second (Poem B) with no apparent rhyme. In both cases there are deep cultural assumptions about the gender of the author. In Poem A the speaker seems to be a woman, since it is the daughter who goes back to her parents' house and takes care of them, whereas in Poem B the author is a man, because it is assumed that it is the man who goes away and then calls home.

The two poems deal with the topic of being apart from your loved ones, and the loneliness and misery that comes with it. Both mention the telephone, which acts as a tool that enables communication, somehow bridging the gap between these people. This is an image that is related to our time, since the telephone is a human...